An inquiry into the nature and treatment of the prevailing epidemic, called spotted fever, &c. &c : in three parts / by Job Wilson, M.B.

  • Wilson, Job, 1776-1851.
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[1815]
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Credit: An inquiry into the nature and treatment of the prevailing epidemic, called spotted fever, &c. &c : in three parts / by Job Wilson, M.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    same that they were in the preceding autumn; but in many people it put on some new appearances. Several persons, who were affected by it, had symptoms of madness. Some had no cough, but very acute pains in the back and head. It was re- marked, that those who had the disease chiefly in the breast the last year, complained now chiefly of their heads ; while those whose heads were affected formerly, complained now chiefly of their breasts. In many, it put on the type of an intermitting fever. Several complained of constant chills or con- stant sweats ; and some were much alarmed by an uncommon blue and dark color in their hands. I saw one case of ischuria, another of acute pain in the rectum, a third an anasarca, and a fourth of a palsy in the tongue and arms ; all of which appeared to be anomalous symptoms of the influ- enza. Pain in the eye-balls was a universal symp- tom : some had pain in one eye only ; and a few had sore eyes, and swellings in the face. A person informed me that he had no other symptom of the disease than an efflorescence on his skin, and a large swelling in his groin, which terminated in an ab- scess. The prisoners, who had it in the autumn, escaped it this spring. It declined sensibly about the first week in June; and after the 12th, I was not called to a single patient. The convalescence from it was very slow, and a general languor appeared to pervade the citizens for several weeks after it left the city.